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So the first things they’re supposed to do is immediately turn themselves in for learning info above their clearance!

Again, not buying what Ibram X. Kendi is selling. What’s being described is hard coding racism into policies, not defining racism itself. If we treated this sentence more like a math equation, where “racism” is defined as “racial bigotry + a power imbalance” we’d have something like R =...

Absolutely! The “paper bag” test is a real thing.* One of my cousins was dating a great guy: 6’ tall marine, infectious smile, built like a linebacker, great sense of humor. We’ll call him “Bob”…‘cause that was his name. He was also quite dark skinned, whereas that cousin was very light...

You have no way of knowing, but they weren’t. I’d bring up my white- or whomever-hating family members and they’d tell me “that’s bigotry, not racism”, usually citing the lack of a power dynamic. The articles they’d hand me to support their positions were equally clear about the need for a...

“Ask about our specials!”

Yes, but no. 😁 I’m thinking like a sandwich board message.

Just had an image of one of the novices walking around the city & close environs in armor typical of the Guild, but with advertising painted on the (possibly tower) shield.

I just imagined someone playing a “healbot” PC like Dr. House… “I require aid! Use your divine gifts to mend this sword-slash to my forearm!” “Mmmmmm…nah. Too boring. Use a tourniquet. Anyone have something more interesting?” “Ah. Ah. Ch’harr still suffers from the acid that giant...

On a Venn diagram, classism and racism* should properly be distinct circles, but the overlap would be very large. * or more accurately, bigotry. Classism can and does exist in cultures that are more racially homogeneous than in places like the USA.

I fully agree that unintentional racism in the form of disparate impact is real. However, I disagree with you- as I did with my mentors- that the power imbalance is key to defining “racism”. Race-based inequity or animus is sufficient. Power imbalances merely affect the consequences of acting...

It does, but I still see some quirks in my community’s discussions of racism that indicate a drive to frame it as a distinct and therefore somehow worse form of bigotry than the others. For instance, several of my mentors over the years have insisted that racism requires a power imbalance in...

There ARE a lot of oddities in the discussion about the nature of racism, no question.

While I agree with that analysis, I’ll point out that such things exist with other forms of bigotry as well. A classic example would be lingering wage gaps between men & women for the same jobs. Or the disperate effects of last hired, first fired policies. Or legacy points in school...

FWIW, I put myself at 8, since I believe that’s where HERO would land.

That’s on a school-by-school basis. Some private school teachers are very well compensated indeed.

Ahhhh, state schools! Did you know that in most states, the highest-paid state employees was a coach or athletic director? https://deadspin.com/infographic-is-your-states-highest-paid-employee-a-co-489635228/

Like most editions of D&D- even my preferred 3.5Ed.

My main issue with 4Ed combat was the ephemeral modifiers. That created its own kind of complexity. Nearly every round, you had to recalculate your bonuses & penalties because they had such short durations. I watched players- usually the more casual gamers- struggle to track plusses and...

I don’t have a complexity preference, I have a preference against unnecessary complexity. And IME, unnecessary complexity usually manifests itself in overly wordy explanations, confusing jargon and verbal imprecision, not mechanics. It can show up in mechanics, too, though. I’ve seen games...